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As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Age: 74 †
Born: 1883
Born: February 18
Died: 1957
Died: October 26
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My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.
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Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.
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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
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The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
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Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
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Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
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Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings.
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He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.
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Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.
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How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies such also is the cry of freedom.
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My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.
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You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
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Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame.
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There's a devil inside me which cries, You're not the son of the Carpenter, you're the son of King David! You are not a man, you are the Son of man whom Daniel prophesied. And still more: The Son of God! And still more: God!
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What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.
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